... grades, I might also provide specific questions that remind students to think about what they already know about a topic as they read and study. Secondly, I would teach Joy to organize. Organized information is stored and retrieved more easily than unorganized information. When students engage in study activities that help them organize information, they learn more effectively. For example, one useful way of organizing information is outlining the material-a strategy that may be especially helpful to low-achieving students like Joy. Another strategy that facilitates organization is making a concept map, a diagram that depicts the concepts of a unit ant their interrelationships. Students benefit in numerous ways from concept maps. By focusing on how concepts relate to one another, students organize material better. They are also more likely to notice how new concepts are related to concepts they know; thus, they are more likely to learn the material meaningfully. Furthermore, ...

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